What is the limit of the number of meta fields?

[kamontander]

Dear Mr. Saikat, dear fellow designers,

I’m trying to put together a really extensive user profile management page for a client and so far ‘User Meta Pro’ has proved to be a good choice.
Moments ago this endeavor reached 100 meta fields and clicking ‘Save Changes’ button stopped producing the familiar ‘Fields Successfully Saved.’ message. Instead I just get the text ‘-1’ under the save button.
Is this due to some internal limit of ‘User Meta Pro’, and can you please instruct me how can I increase this limit? I need about 15 more fields to complete the job.
I am aware that the limit is set for performance reasons, and that my approach is probably far from good practice but everything else is built around this form and I would very much like to get it working without having to rebuild everything.
Thank you for reading this far 🙂

[Khaled]

Hello,

There are no limitation of fields creation. Generally “-1” text appear when there are no admin access to do the certain task.

May be you logout form admin with another window, so it falls to security check.

Thanks.

[kamontander]

Thank you for the reply!

I’ve tried logging out and logging back in, and even tried different browsers but without success. When I try to add field #101 I get “-1” message.
Perhaps it is some WordPress limitation.

[kamontander]

I have managed to narrow down the problem to server’s PHP ‘Suhosin’ extension which limits down execution of database entries for security reasons. This page refers to a similar problem with possible workarounds. However, none of these work for me, as PHP configuration is out of my reach. The server admin agreed to change ‘suhosin’ parameters but asked me for a suggestion as to which ones and their respective values.
If you are familiar with this stuff, can you please let me know which Suhosin variables are in question and to which values should they be set?

[kamontander]

Just to let you know that I have managed to solve my problem by asking the server admin to modify the abovementioned ‘suhosin’ variables.
The values that worked for me are as follows:

suhosin.cookie.max_array_depth = 500
suhosin.cookie.max_vars = 1000
suhosin.get.max_array_depth = 500
suhosin.get.max_vars = 1000
suhosin.post.max_array_depth = 500
suhosin.post.max_array_index_length = 768
suhosin.post.max_vars = 5000
suhosin.request.max_array_depth = 500
suhosin.request.max_array_index_length = 768
suhosin.request.max_totalname_length = 512
suhosin.request.max_vars = 5000

I hope this helps someone facing a similar problem.

[Khaled]

Sounds good.

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